Reddish Appetite

Red Bell Peppers are great idea for breakfast. In a traditional Turkish breakfast, we generally have cheese, green and black olives, egg, jam, honey, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers. These are just the things coming to my mind.

It’s not common to have just cereals or fruit as breakfast. We love big breakfast! As everyone knows, breakfast is the most important meal of a day. If you ask me, I can not think of a life without breakfast. Some poeple don’t feel like eating in the morning, I’m just the opposite. At night, you can find me planning what to eat in the morning. One of our famous poets, Cemal Süreya says “Breakfast must have a strong relation with happiness”. That summarizes what I think about breakfast.

Apart from the common elements in our breakfast, we also like creating some special tastes. Red Pepper is just one of them (I live write the other ones later). You can either have it just after preparing or keep it in a jar in refrigerator to eat later. You can keep it in this way for months.

Wash the peppers, remove their seeds and chop them big. Put these peppers and sliced garlic in a pot, pour vinegar into it. Cook them together until tender. Then add olive oil and salt, and saute the peppers, but not much. Take the pot from the stove let them get cold, but it shouldn’t be too cold. It will just lose heat. Then add the leaves of dill and parsley (chopped big), mix them with a spoon. It’s ready to eat.

If you increase the amount of ingredients, you can put it in a jar and whenever you want, make a surprise with it to your family. You will see these red bell peppers will add more color and more taste, thus more appetite to your breakfast tables.

Comments

I have to admit it. I hardly ever eat breakfast! I don’t know why…I just get it, have morning prayer and go right to work! I know I should change this practice. Your post just reminds me of that and the delicious red peppers too!!!! Thanks for sharing this !!! 🙂

I love love love Turkish breakfast. I have never had red peppers for breakfast there, but this recipe looks great. I will make it for my friends for brunch one day. We did a whole episode on Turkish breakfast this summer. Julie of Caravansarai in Istanbul did the video footage for us for that one. Your photos are awesome!http://www.kitchencaravan.com/season6/episode1